E30
The original
Box flares, a motor that wants revs, and a chassis that taught a generation what a driver's car is. The M3 that started it.
Division · Machines
Alles Machines
BMWs, Porsche, Mercedes — perfect for these hills.
Mark's cars. BMW, Porsche, Mercedes — custom work in the eighty-year-old shop on the property. Perfect for these hills.
The passion
Alles builds houses and writes software. The shop is for BMW, Porsche, and Mercedes — cars that belong in these hills. Mark learned the work from his father, a German master mechanic from Mercedes-Benz who ran Karl's Service Center in San Francisco. Mercedes, BMW, VW, all of it European. That is where this comes from. Not a dealership. Not a volume shop.
If you have one of these — or something in that spirit — bring it to the shop. If you need an oil-change special, there are better places down the hill.
The cars
E36
The everyday weapon
The one you could drive to work and still take apart a canyon. Estoril evenings on Mosquito Ridge.
E46
The one they still chase
S54, a hood that means it, and the last analog M3 before the cars got heavy. Laguna Seca Blue belongs in these hills.
911
The other religion
Air-cooled or not, a 911 is a 911. Engine out back, hands full, gold-country light on the haunches.
The shop
Eighty years on the property.
Restoration, diagnosis, and fabrication for the cars we actually care about. Same shop that builds the houses and the software. Antique building. Everything gets built here.
Talk machines